NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Washington Post Co. plans to have
its veteran editors help shape the way stories appear on the
Web in the latest example of how top U.S. publishers are
retooling news operations for the Internet.
HELSINKI (Reuters) - A new television show that debuted
over the Christmas holiday season is turning Finnish viewers
into soap opera scriptwriters — through the power of text
messaging.
BERLIN (Reuters) - A classroom shooting followed by a
series of copycat threats placed schools in parts of Germany on
high alert this month and fanned calls for lawmakers to draft a
ban on the violent computer games they hold responsible.
PARIS (Reuters) - French presidential frontrunners Segolene
Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy issued New Year greetings via the
Internet on Monday in contrasting styles that spoke volumes
about their different approach to the campaign.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The companies behind an encryption
system for high-definition DVDs are looking into a hacker’s
claim that he has cracked the code protecting the new discs
from piracy, a spokesman for one of the companies said on
Thursday.
Police say a beach party being staged in Brighton on New Year’s Day by Fatboy Slim will be a safe event.
STONE MOUNTAIN, Georgia (Reuters) - When Michael White, a
self-described “Joe Blow off the block,” set up a Web site to
track U.S. casualties in Iraq he never imagined it would become
a leading resource on the subject.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Hollywood movie studios have won a
lawsuit in China over the posting of movie clips on the
Internet, the Motion Picture Association said on Friday.
Computer firm Apple details stock option problems but has “complete confidence” in boss Steve Jobs.
BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc.
Chief Executive Steve Jobs received a vote of confidence from
the company’s board on Friday in a much anticipated filing that
also said it would take an $84 million charge for misdating
stock options.
We’ve been oogling over the Nokia N95 dual-way slider for a while now, and as the February release date gets closer we have been graced with this commercial for the N95. Hot …
How cool would it be to have Samuel L. Jackson wake you up every morning with his trademark yelling?
Unless you’re his kid or his wife (or mistress), the only way you’ll accomplish that is with this Ventriloque alarm …
PARIS (Reuters) - The French space agency is to publish its
archive of UFO sightings and other phenomena online, but will
keep the names of those who reported them off the site to
protect them from pestering by space fanatics.
What do you get when you overclock Nvidia’s GeForce 8800 GTX? As the folks at i4U found out, you get the fastest card on the planet. With a core clock speed of 630MHz (up from the standard 575MHz), …
A recently discovered keyboard work believed to be one of Mozart’s earliest is performed in Austria.
Cinema attendance in the US is up despite fears over increased competition from the internet.
The creator of the Wikipedia plans a ‘people-powered’ search engine to take on Google.
Pack you bastards. Pack like you’ve never packed before. – Jason Chen
The Cool Hunter
A change to the way the UK singles chart is compiled could see B-sides and album tracks enter the top 10.
A survey to find the arts capital of the UK names NewcastleGateshead above London and Edinburgh.